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Davesnave

GDB2222 said:

Davesnave said:

I'm not sure what tommydog's concept of 'cheap land' is.

In the examples I mentioned, the woodlands were up for sale at £60k and £37k, the former being sold about 7 years before the latter. I don't know what the prices actually paid were.

In another case locally where the caravan dwellers owned the land, the council didn't evict for a long time, but when they did it was seized to help pay costs. These were considerable and included storage for all the stuff stored on the site....or rather they would have done, but two mysterious fires occurred on consecutive nights and most of that was sadly destroyed. Villagers saw nothing and it was all very odd!

Of course, woodland may be a decent investment.

I know. One reason I know about the first example is that I considered purchase, but the proximity of a main road and a hard track leading from it led me to wonder about security from unauthorised use`and I had other plans for £37k.

The £37k plot represented half of that wood,  originally purchased for around the same amount 5 years previously, which proves your point. The other half was still for sale when I last looked, but much of it is steep and not such an attractive proposition for pitching caravans or firewood.